you are partially right, "FDA" leverage is off my list i forgot 1/2 point FDXLAG.

as for FAR's, I WAS a military pilot too, but now we are ALL civilian while flying purple planes! (some forget that little fact). So learning the FAR's is more critical than debating CBA's. A CBA violation can cost you your job and FAR violation can cost you your job and tickets.

 

Sorry the FAR comment was to benefit another poster who says military pilots dont know FARs. I know at least 3 or 4 of em. Google helps with the rest.

 

Here's one: what if you have R days to the end of the month and start the same reserve from the beginning of the next month (several weeks of continuous reserve crossing the bid-month divider) and you call in sick after sitting a couple days reserve? Do those days served at the beginning of the string count for the next month or would one have to get well before the end of that second month of R days ended to not be hit for the entire second month of R-days?

 

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But as AA put it in another thread - it will only affect a few people.... [/QUOTE]

OK genius...I said it seemed a bit draconian to me but IMO, it will affect only a few people. IF you get a custom line and IF that custom line has trips and a reserve period and IF you call in sick for the ENTIRE reserve period, you are affected. To me, that's a few people. To you, another major crisis. You want to dig in your heals over this, knock yourself out.

 

AA,

This also effects people that have a secondary line consisting of trips and R days. This happens fairly often. Most of the time the R days are filler for your line. But it also creates a "mini-RLG."It's happened to me several times, so I know it can happen.

The fact is that this is a change. It isn't "codification of current practice." The lost greivance concerned someone that had vacation and reserve. This also created the mini-RLG in this case, and the current contract allows for this to happen since it was a line consisting entirely of R days.

How many will it effect? It's hard to say, but I'd say that 10 or so MD-11 FO (MEM) have this hybrid type of line. How many system wide? Maybe it effects about 100 or so pilots a month (Secondary lines and custom lines). I guess it depends on how many custom lines are built (usually due to initial training).

But it is a change, it's not codification. I'd appreciate getting accurate information from the union. I'm not saying they are lying to us, but I think they don't seem to have the information that I'd like them to have. Especially when they are writing our contract language.